"Usually, I start thinking about my next..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks
Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.
More by Nicholas Sparks
“You'll make mistakes and struggle like everyone, but when you are with the right person, you'll almost perfect joy, like you are the luckiest person who ever lived. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.”
“I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.”
“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.”
More on Writing
“I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, "Geez, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool."”
“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”
“The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.”
More on Process
“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”
“To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.”
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”